Information Management Possible?

Abstract

Information Management often goes awry in organizations due to a lack of basic planning and respect for the complexity of the job at hand. A key discipline that often gets overlooked in that planning is that of Information Architecture. This article contends that Information Architecture is a strategic and holistic information discipline that should be central to any Information Management project or programme, both in its planning and execution. Instead, organizations often follow a variety of poor Information Management strategies where the common factor is their ignorance of Information Architecture’s importance; Information Architecture allows for the rational and optimizing systematization of information. Such tenets will only become more important in the future as information moves towards semantic richness.